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Yeah, I said I was going to post some blargh about the vid show, but Shrift is doing a much better job with it <g>, so I'll just direct you to her. One thing I did want to say was that I learned from a member of the vidder list that the person who did the eight LotR vids had basically done them for herself, without much awareness that such a thing as fannish vidding or vid shows existed, and hadn't brought them to the con with the intention of showing them publicly; someone offered to put them on tape and add them to the show. Apparently during the show she became very aware of the cumulative-overload factor herself, and was distressed at the poor visual quality on the big screen. I have a huge soft spot for people who leap into activities like this in pursuit of their singular fannish/artistic obsessions, so I really want to encourage her to continue, and I join those who've expressed a hope that she'll redo some of these with better source material (like, when the DVD comes out). Especially the Brothers in Arms one, which I think is marvellous--a really superb match of song with movie.

The con is already starting to feel long ago and far away, because work has been insane this past week, and also a number of my lists have been quite active. Not that I've posted much to them, but I've started a lot of long posts that mostly rambled off into inconsequentiality and never got sent.

Spring has arrived here on the tundra, with a whump, or maybe a whoosh, or whatever noise an arriving-spring would make. This may be one of those years when we go more or less straight into summer, in fact, with spring a mere interlude of slop. It's going to get up in the seventies this weekend, and I can take plastic off the windows, take off the storm doors, and get some fresh air in the house. Garrison Keillor, in one of his books, has a nice bit on that first warm day of spring, when you open up the house and take a lungful of fresh clean air and are suddenly struck with how stale and filthy and cluttered the house is, full of a winter's accumulation of dust, cat hair, old magazines, dirty socks. Everything that seemed cozy and snug a few months ago is suddenly, intolerably, suffocating. So I plan a mad cleaning-binge this weekend, and am making comprehensive lists.

I also need to buy some clothes--my wardrobe is getting pretty ragged--but the times I've tried to do so lately I've been appalled by everything that's out there. Not just the current fashion for tightly and skimpily cut clothing (although it is certainly discouraging to find that, although I'm not a particularly large woman, I still can't get into the XL t-shirts -- is there some belief in the fashion industry that the entire human race has shrunk, in the past few years??) but also because everything looks so depressingly ugly to me that I can't stand to look at it. I think this is likely a generational thing; fashion seems to go in these 20-30 year cycles, so the current trend is for stuff that looks like what I used to wear when I was young. I mean, bellbottoms! Dear god, I lived through bellbottoms once, don't make me do it again! Platform shoes--aaaiiiieeeee!!! (I remember my mother having exactly the same reaction to the 40s-revival Joan-Crawford stuff that was trendy for a while in the 70s and which I loved.)

Am in the middle of composing a long belated incoherent blither on the race-in-fanfiction thread that was lively a week ago, but I need to do some more thinking, and I must now go vacuum.

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Okay, you know what? If *you* can't get into an XL t-shirt? Something is deeply, deeply wrong.

My mom is trying to tempt me into learning how to sew. When she was young, she sewed *all* her own clothes, not because she was overweight (Mom was a Class A hottie in most of the conventional ways), but because she preferred to spend money on chi chi perfumes and sparkly jewelry.

I have to admit, it's tempting... I've got a *great* eye for color, and there are these designs and... and...

Posted by Te @ 04/13/2002 10:38 AM CST

Heh. Spring cleaning here too, Kat. Or rather, excavating the room Chris used to inhabit before he moved into the basement (teenage rite of passage number 5). Tomorrow I will reward myself by visiting the very muddy and hairy horses. I know you're just as busy as I am, but I would love try to get you out to barn one of these weekends.

Posted by debchan @ 04/13/2002 04:00 PM CST

Shopping in the *wrong* places, eh. Beth bought me an XL t-shirt at the Hockey Hall of Fame (*ooooh*, the crowd says reverently) and it fits me with room to spare, you'd fucking swim in it.

Hockey Hall of Fame, Kat. I'm telling you.

Posted by auk @ 04/14/2002 08:57 AM CST

But Kat - You are right. Not only are the clothes ugly as mud but they ARE smaller. I've lost 35 pounds in the last year and I can't get into the XL or even the 1 X. I have to buy 2 X pants even though I can now fit into my older pants (size 16-18). Guess that's what comes from having the clothes industry located in Siri Lanka or Korea where they are small. I've never seen an Asian woman with a size 38 bust (unless it's silicon) so I suspect that American women's sizes are just not something that they can visualize.

And the colors! Lime green and a horrible shade of yellow? Who looks good in them? And the dreadful sewing - ragged seams and button holes that are sewed shut and necklines gape and raw seams.

UG! However, try Land's End stuff - it's not expensive, it's well made and the colors are nice and bright!

namaste Nancy

Posted by Nancy Ewart @ 04/14/2002 11:53 PM CST

Laughed at your choice of fashion-bads. My favorite outfit at the moment is my old navy, hip-riding, flared bottom jeans, my black platform shoes, and a tight t-shirt.

Some things are just *classics*! (like Starsky, for instance).

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